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Daily ramblings
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01.09.06US dollars and usabilityThe American dollar is one of the best known currencies in the world and probably the closest you can get to some kind of universal method of payment. When travelling I would of course always recommend to use local currencies. Anything else would usually be very expensive and sometimes it could be considered directly offensive. Still, when travelling on remote places I always carry some dollars. It's not the cheapest way to get around, but if your backpack and your passport and your camera and your wallet has just been stolen and the only thing you need is to get to ...
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12.06.05w00t! This blog is a winner.As mentioned earlier eirikso.com was nominated for "Best Technology Blog" in Dagbladet's competition (Norwegian) where they want to find the best blogs in Norway. Dagbladet is one of Norway's biggest newspapers. Now, the voting has ended, and this blog won a "Golden Blog Award" for best technology blog. If you master the strange language of Norwegian you can head over here to read the public announcement and an interview with eirikso. Fantastic. Because the two other blogs nominated in the same category are very good ones as well, I take this as a huge compliment from the people that voted for this one. ...
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12.01.05You would never ever steal anything hereA coworker just joined a friend that bought himself a new set of tires for his car. He used a legendary and low priced dealer in Oslo. It is run by some extremely efficient and clever people looking like they divide their time 50% doing work for the shop and 50% lifting weights at the gym. Not the kind of people you would mess with. At the entrance of the shop they have put up a sign that is kind of interesting here in heavily regulated and streamlined Norway. It says: "Theft will not be reported. It will be punished." Fantastic. This is ...
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11.30.05Pictures of the four seasons in NorwayMore fun with my pictures from the year 2005. These pictures are a very good illustration of the four seasons here in Norway. The temperature vary from -20 to +30 degrees celcius. (And please note that -20 is the extreme low. Winter here in Oslo tend to vary between -5 and +5, still talking celcius). Summer should be from +15 to +25 C. ...and to make it easy for the people using an ancient system for measuring temperature: Extremes through the year: -4 to +86 F Normal winter: 23 to 41 F Normal summer: 59 ...
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10.28.05Reality or not reality – that’s the questionPicture by Glenn C. FeronYou can't buy the effect of photoshop in a beauty saloon The brilliant retoucher Glenn C. Feron has a wonderful portfolio where you can see the difference between the original and the picture that he has touched with his photoshop magic. As you can see from the picture here, to the left you have a beautiful lady. Already beautiful to the point that is not possible to reach for average people because she is already prepared by the finest of professional make-up artists, hairdressers and an excellent photographer. To the right she is even more beautiful. Beautiful to ...